Managed to aerate the pitch with me little Aercore 1000 today. Because, as a colleague of mine said earlier this month (and earlier last month funnily enough), "You can never have too many holes"!! 
Also mowed the pitch maintaining the HOC at 1¾"
Still a few sparse areas to sort out.
From the posh end of the room!!
GOGGA
28 Jun 2009 by Mal
On the whole Aladdin you will have done very well 
Geography is everywhere
You will never see a statue in honour of a committee.
Sumo,
At the moment I only have ⅝" tines. I plan to visit a local JD dealer who, unfortunately(?), is more agri orientated but maybe they can order me some needle tines etc. Otherwise I'll have to go further afield.
Mal,
At least you know that someone's reading it!! And taking it in.
From the posh end of the room!!
From the posh end of the room!!
From the posh end of the room!!
29 Jun 2009 by Mal
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Geography is everywhere
29 Jun 2009 by Aladdin Last edited 29 Jun 2009
Thanks for that, Mal. Should help others as well.
How deep do you spike? (I know the depth should vary)
My Aercore, sorry, my posh Aercore only goes to a depth of 4". Although I seem to remember someone saying a depth of 7" could be achieved with care. The poster in question, if I recall correctly, had a 1500 for whatever difference that might make
Edit: Forgot to say, I'll have to go further afield for my tines. It seems the JD agri dealer is not allowed to deal in Groundcare products.
From the posh end of the room!!
29 Jun 2009 by Mal
On the bowls green I generally spike down to 4 inches and occasionally 5 using our Groundsman spiker. I don't go any deeper than this on the green as I would be into the clinker base. On the football pitch we vary greatly with a new tines on the vertidrain we generally get down between 8 to 10 " We will start our program with the vertidrain on our pitch one with new tines and as they wear, we start with the new tines on a different pitch next time so they all get a mixture of depths. We intermingle this with surface spiking with our quadraplay down to 2 inch and also inter mingle with our McConnel Slitting spiker which will spike to 4 to 5 inches. I've never had any experiance with a aercore (far too posh for a mean old codger like me). 
Geography is everywhere
From the posh end of the room!!
From the posh end of the room!!
From the posh end of the room!!
From the posh end of the room!!
From the posh end of the room!!
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